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The PARIS Lab launched in Fall 2026. We are growing, and your photo could be here next.

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Zhiyu Huang

Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University

Zhiyu Huang is an Assistant Professor at NC State and the Director of the PARIS Lab. Previously, he was a postdoctoral scholar at UCLA, a research intern at NVIDIA, and a visiting student researcher at UC Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. from Nanyang Technological University (NTU).

His honors include UCLA Chancellor’s Award for Postdoctoral Research Nominee, NTU MAE Best Ph.D. Thesis Award, ITSC 2023 Best Paper Runner-up Award, IEEE ITS Best Dissertation Award Finalist, and Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientists list.

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Embodied AI & vision-language-action models

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Robot manipulation & dual-arm learning

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Legged robots & humanoids

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Autonomous driving & world models

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